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Bett's avatar

Let's hear it for healthy jokes! In his book, Man's Search for Meaning, holocaust concentration camp survivor Viktor Frankl wrote about the jokes he and his fellow prisoners told each other about the guards. I know from my own difficult experiences - never as hard as the Holocaust but still dang hard - that joking has often been a way of staying sane and making it to another day. Keep on keeping on y'all...

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i don’t follow how this paragraph is connected to the rest of the essay: “None of the problems facing humanity today are technically difficult to solve...”

but re:“Systemic use of natural and alternative healing modalities could reverse autoimmunity [etc]”

my experience (so far) is that in 9 years of trying i have been unsuccessful in regaining my health, despite an awareness of the holistic approach and the trialling of umpteen methods in that time.

i recognise that “these easy solutions... require agreement among human beings” i.e. funding, research. but none of the dozens of practitioners i have seen or approaches i have tried have included the disclaimer, “my therapy needs broader societal support and a series of double-blind studies to make it work”. homeopathy, biofield tuning, psychedelics, craniosacral therapy, functional medicine, kinesiology, reiki, ayurveda, rife machines, distance healing & body scanning all work. apart from when they don’t. and you don’t get your money back when they don’t.

equally, do we have the slightest clue about how to rid the oceans of microplastics and the soils of forever chemicals? what about getting those out of our own bodies? do ‘we’ in the alternative world have the correct understanding about what ‘covid’ is? (e.g. i happen to be most persuaded by the ‘no virus’ perspective - but most in the ‘health freedom’ movement think this is insane, if they’ve even heard of it at all).

i feel uneasy posting this comment because i don’t want to sound defeatist, and i have a nagging terror that i just haven't properly, properly tried yet. i'm still playing it safe somehow. i haven’t given up, i am persevering, i want to believe. i think i do believe. but i don’t want to be delusional either. i’m open to receiving the answers. if you’re reading my comment and can send me answers in my dreams tonight, please do.

thanks.

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